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Anjum Katyal

Anjum Katyal is a writer, editor, and translator. She has been Chief Editor, Seagull Books and Editor, Seagull Theatre Quarterly; Web Editor, Saregama-HMV; and Editor, Art and the City and ArthArt. Her books on theatre include Habib Tanvir: Towards an Inclusive Theatre (2012), Badal Sircar: Towards a Theatre of Conscience (2015), and Safdar Hashmi: Towards Theatre for a Democracy (2024). She has edited several volumes on theatre, translated plays by Habib Tanvir, fiction by Mahasweta Devi, and children’s stories by Meera Mukherjee. Her translation of Mahasweta Devi’s Truth/Untruth (2023) was awarded the VoW Book Award for Translation (2024). She is currently Director, Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (AKLF).